Session format: Once-off webinar
Date and Time: Thursday 28 November 2019 at 1 pm (SAST)
Presenter:Dr. Wycliff Edwin Tusiime,
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In this webinar, I report from a case study that thought to understand how teacher educators use digital technologies in teaching Art and Design (A&D) in Uganda. The study employed semi-structured interviews and non-participant observations to gather qualitative data from teacher educators in selected teacher training institutions in Uganda. The findings indicate an occasional use of digital technologies in the classroom and that majority of A&D teacher educators face an ongoing dilemma in teaching without proper access to digital technologies (hardware, software and the Internet) and low digital competences. The findings further confirm teacher educators’ limited awareness of the relationship between technology, pedagogy and content in the teaching of Art and Design subjects. These findings suggest that desired learning outcomes mediated by the use of digital technologies may greatly be impeded.
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Wycliff Edwin Tusiime is a PhD student at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway and a lecturer of Art, Design and Education Technology at the Department of Art and Industrial Design, Kyambogo University in Kampala, Uganda. He has previously won research grants and published research papers and a book chapter in the areas of art and design teacher education, education technology and vocational education. Currently, Wycliff collaborates with Prof. Monica Johannesen from Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway and Prof. Greta Björk Gudmundsdottir from the University of Oslo, Norway. Their current research project is ‘Developing Professional Digital Competence for Art & Design Teacher Educators in Uganda’.
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Ralitsa Debrah I am a design educator/ researcher at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana and Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), South Africa. I play an active role in several design and education related organisations such as: e/Merge Africa, Design for Social Innovation and Sustainability (DESIS) Network; Design Research and Activity Workgroup/ network (DRAWn CPUT and KNUST), Network of Afrikan Designers (NAD), Pan Afrikan Design Institute (PADI), Ghana Institute of Graphic Artists (GhiGha); DesignGhana; and serve as the Afrikan Ambassador to Open Design Afrika (ODA) organisation, in Cape Town, South Africa. My research interests include: Educational Technology, Gamification, Service Design, Communication Design, within Trans-disciplinary settings. I have worked on several design and education related projects on sustainability in both Afrikan and European settings such as C-San-Futures, INDEHELA ISD4D, LeNSes, EU Party Project and Open Educational Resources (OER), KNUST, Ghana. I co-facilitate the e/merge Africa Facilitating Online course. I am looking forward to engage with fellow researchers and explore possibilities of future research collaborations. I am a futurist, a lifelong learner, I love people and connecting. 
Irene Maweu By training, exchange and partnerships with institutions of higher learning, development partners, private and public sector and Non-Governmental Organizations, I have experience in various fields, with many years in human capacity development especially in e-learning. I have been involved in content development, design and delivery of various courses and trainings. I also have experience and passion for health related, cross cutting, strategic as well as policy issues. I am a member of the International Association of Facilitators, eLearning in Development implementation (ELDI), Guidelines International Network (GIN) and e/merge Africa team among others. I love travelling, networking and changing lives.
Dr Alice Barlow-Zambodla e/Merge Africa Network Regional Coordinator for Southern and East Africa I have a multi-disciplinary background in Agriculture, Botany and ICTs for education resulting in lecturing and research experience totalling more than 25 years at the Universities of Transkei and Kwa-Zulu-Natal, South Africa. My more recent experiences involve working as a Programme Specialist for 7.5 years at SAIDE, an educational research and development NGO. This work involved working with various tertiary institutions on the continent focussing mainly on open and distance learning programmes, the development and use of open education resources, ICTs for Education and development, as well as the monitoring and evaluation of educational interventions. In my capacity as a Vodacom Change the World volunteer 2014-2016 I have been working with the Buffelshoek Trust to set up and capacitate 11 ICT Centres situated at 9 rural schools in Bushbuckridge Municipality, Mpumalanga, South Africa.